Improvement in cooking-stoves



GREER & KING.

Codking Stove.

Patented March 16, 1869.

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JAMES GREER AND RUFUS 1. KING, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 87,925, dated Man-ch 16 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pert of the name.

.To whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Janus GREEK. and RUFUS 1. KING, both of Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cook- Stoves; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part 'of this specification.

This is an improvement in the class of stoves which has a fender inside of the fire-doors, for the double purpose of protecting said doors from direct contact with the incandescent mass, and of retaining the latter within thefire-place, when the doors are opened;

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Our improvement consists in making such fender of one or more imperforate doors, which, in addition to the uses mentioned above, serve, in conjunction with a registered outer door or doors, to preheat the entering air, and direct it to the bottom of the fire, the said inner door or doors being moreover easily opened, for access to the fire-place, when it may be desired to remove a portion or the whole of its contents, for broiling, or otherwise.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the front portion of astove provided with our improvement, the front doors being open.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section thereof, with the fire-doors closed, and the register open.

Figure 3- is a vertical section of the same.

Fitted to the front opening, A, of the fireplace, are two imperforate folding doors, or fenders B B, provided with catches, whichengage in a customary staple, a.

O O are two external doors, adapted to slide horior disclose the inner doors, B B, at will.

Each door, 0 O, has, near its upper part, a register,

D, for the purpose of admitting draught-air, which air, having become warm by contact with the inner doors B B, while serving at the same time to keep the outer doors cool, is directed to the bottom of ,the fire-space, through the passages A, beneath the said inner doors.

It will be seen that by this arrangement all of the draught-air is obliged to enter the the in a more or less preheated condition, and that it is compelled to pass entirely through the body of the fire, thus insuring perfect combustion, and avoiding the deleterious effects of cooling currents in the fines, and against the cooking-vessels and oven.

We claim herein as new, and of our invention- 1. The fender B B, constructed substantially as herein described, so as to admit of its being opened, for the purpose of getting at the fire, forbroiling and other purposes.

2. The combination of the imperforate inner doors, or fenders B B, forming the front wall of the fire'-ehamher, and affording access thereto,'for the removal of its contents, and the outer doors 0 0, provided with the registers D, and forming, in connection with said inner doors, a space, or passage for heating the draughtair, and directing it to the bottom of the fire-space, and.

also to keep said outer doors cool, substantially as described.

In testimony of w ich inyention, we' hereunto set our hands.

JAMES GREER. RUFUS I. KING.

Witnesses FRANK L. ALLEN, A. O. KITTREDGE. 

